Non-Alcoholic (Yet Special!) Sips for the Holidays

Thanksgiving and the holiday season call for special sips at parties and dinners. But not everyone drinks alcohol, and it's a little sad to think of drinking water or apple juice with your turkey. Never fear, though — there is a growing space of sophisticated, grown-up, yet alcohol-free drinks that are just as good (really!) as bubbly. Here are our favorites.

The highest recommendation we can give to a nonalcoholic product right now would go to White Jasmine Sparkling Tea from Golden Star Tea (see our review here). This is a slightly fermented, fizzy jasmine tea that pairs beautifully with food, and that has a lot of the complexity of wine. Honestly we like it as much as champagne; even for those who drink alcohol, this is a total treat. It's about $10 a bottle, which when compared to wine is not bad at all.

Several other sodas that we have recommended include GuS, DRY, and Vignette Wine Country sodas. Wine Country is especially interesting to us, since it uses wine grapes to make a light, dry, fizzy sip that seems like it would be very food-friendly. We also love the subtle, barely-scented DRY soda; the Juniper and Kumquat are especially promising for pairing with holiday foods.